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Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wikipedia Summary for Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.

Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home in Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States. He also designed original and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums, and other commercial projects. Wright-designed interior elements (including leaded glass windows, floors, furniture and even tableware) were integrated into these structures. He wrote several books and numerous articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time." In 2019, a selection of his work became a listed World Heritage Site as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Raised in rural Wisconsin, Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and then apprenticed in Chicago, first with Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1887) and then with Louis Sullivan (1888). He opened his own successful Chicago practice in 1893, and established a studio in his Oak Park, Illinois home in 1898. His personal life made headlines: leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, for Mamah Cheney in 1909; the murders at his Taliesin estate by a staff member in 1914; his tempestuous marriage with second wife Miriam Noel in 1923; and his relationship with Olgivanna Lazović, whom he married in 1928.

Quote: If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of forest trees photograph
Photo Credit: Logan Easterling

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.


Quote: The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of pink and white flower in close up photography
Photo Credit: Phillip Larking

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.


Quote: Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of moon near mountain ridge

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.


I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.


Quote: A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.


Quote: The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.


Quote: The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.


Quote: The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.


Quote: The room within is the great fact about the building. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The room within is the great fact about the building.


Quote: I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.


Quote: When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.


Quote: Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.


Quote: Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.


Quote: Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy.


Quote: I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.


Quote: Less is more only when more is too much. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Less is more only when more is too much.


Quote: New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.


Quote: Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?


Quote: The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.


Quote: If it sells, it's art. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

If it sells, it's art.


Quote: Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.


Quote: If you're going to have centralization, why not have it! by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!


Quote: Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.


Quote: Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.


Quote: I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.


Quote: I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches.


Quote: You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.




Quote: Television is bubble-gum for the mind. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.


Quote: Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.


Quote: Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.


Quote: I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.


Quote: The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.


Quote: Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.


Quote: Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.


Quote: The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.


Quote: So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.


Quote: If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.


Quote: We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote: We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.- black text on quotes background

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.


Quote: It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.


Quote: We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.


Quote: The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.


Quote: I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.


Quote: For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote; white text on black background

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.


Quote: The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote: The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.- black text on quotes background

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.


Quote: The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote; white text on black background

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.


Quote: If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.


Quote: Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life.


Quote: I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.


Quote: From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.


Quote: Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.


Quote: Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.


Quote: If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.


Quote: We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote: We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.- black text on quotes background

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.


Quote: I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.


Quote: I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.


Quote: Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture -- if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture -- if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.


Quote: Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.


Quote: What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.


Quote: Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.




Quote: New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.


Quote: Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.


Quote: Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of Frank Lloyd Wright quote; white text on black background

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.


Quote: Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.


Quote: 'Think in simples' as my old master used to say -- meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say -- meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.


Quote: I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.


Quote: To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.


Quote: Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.


Quote: I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.


Quote: Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.


Quote: Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.


Quote: Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.


Quote: Mechanization best serves mediocrity. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.


Quote: I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.


Quote: Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.


Quote: Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.


Quote: The space within becomes the reality of the building. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The space within becomes the reality of the building.


Quote: The truth is more important than the facts. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

The truth is more important than the facts.


Quote: Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.


Quote: Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.


Quote: Form follows function -- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Form follows function -- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.


Quote: An idea is salvation by imagination. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

An idea is salvation by imagination.


Quote: Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.


Quote: Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.


Quote: Get the habit of analysis -- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Get the habit of analysis -- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.


Quote: God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.


Quote: Television is chewing gum for the eyes. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.


Quote: Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. by author Frank Lloyd Wright overlaid on photo of photo of author Frank Lloyd Wright with quote

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.


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